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sometimes i spook myself with the words that flop outta my head human language is a weird level of complex. the more words you're trying to string together, the bigger the idea(ssss) underneath you're trying to get at. but u will never truly succeed at conveying ithttps://twitter.com/cosimia_/status/1261160978621685761 …

a word is a simple idea. some words have multiple ideas too, like "un-happy". you've got the emotion idea and then the negation idea. then you put words together, but the ideas conveyed don't increase linearly. because words reference each other in a weird round-about way

the way our brain stores these also reflect this. a passage from a text isn't stored word for word. we basically make a little micro-simulation of the words in action. when you read "a person is writing a letter" the same brain regions light up as when you're actually writing

and then you go on to add the ideas of the rest of the passage to that one. that kinda makes sense, but how tf are we understanding the meaning of elaborately written philosophical arguments?